Fedora Workstation is an optimized “Fedora” for the desktop, for the GNOME Desktop actually. Part of the optimizations seems to include a disabled -but still there- firewall. This will especially please the FPS/MMO gamers, since the firewall reduces significantly the “response” times.

Of course it will also lead to faster boot times for everyone, and the firewall will not interfere with sharing protocols such as DAAP and UPnP, which they will work out of box, without needing special tweaks.

A disabled firewalld

Currently there isn’t a way to disable/enable firewalld from the user-interface, so it makes sense that Fedora will add some UI parts here for users that want to enable it, but obviously they will not be familiar with CLI and “systemctl”.